Russia's space agency has announced it plans to launch a replacement Soyuz to bring home ISS crew members later this month.
Russia’s space agency has announced it plans to launch a replacement Soyuz spacecraft to bring home ISS crew members later this month.
The replacement Soyuz is needed due to a coolant leak in the original Soyuz craft which was scheduled to carry NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin back to Earth. The leak in the coolant system meant that temperatures inside the Soyuz could have reached dangerous levels during the return trip through the atmosphere.
The announcement of the replacement Soyuz launch date follows a second coolant leak that occurred on an uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft while the vehicle was docked to the ISS. Roscosmos decided to check on the status of the Progress craft before confirming the launch date of the replacement Soyuz crew craft.
According to NASA updates, the Progress was undocked from the station at 9:26 p.m. ET on Friday, February 17, though its deorbit was delayed by around 24 hours to allow time for inspection of the vehicle. During this time the craft was put into a trajectory away from the station for safety reasons, before performing its final deorbit burn at 10:15 p.m. ET on February 18 and burning up in the atmosphere.
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